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Corporal JOHN SHARPLES

Service Number: 3389317
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

144th (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 24 January 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PRESTON (NEW HALL LANE) CEMETERY

Sec. D. C. of E. Joint grave 703.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Catherine Sharples; husband of Mildred Sharples, of Preston.
  • Personal Inscription SOME DAY WE WILL UNDERSTAND
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Buried or commemorated at

PRESTON (NEW HALL LANE) CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 508
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